UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Environmental determinants for forest composition development in the Netherlands during the Holocene
(2025)Assessing the relationship between environmental gradients and plant distributions is an important field of study in ecology, but as in many countries the natural vegetation has been cleared by human activities, this ... -
Detection of clinical instability by electronic nose in adult asthma patients
(2025)Astma is een chronische longaandoening die gekenmerkt wordt door reversibele bronchusobstructie en symptomen als benauwdheid, piepen, en hoesten. Het doel van de behandeling is het bereiken van goede astmacontrole. Hieronder ... -
Reconstruction of Clipped Seismic Waveform
(2025)Seismic waveforms are clipped when ground motions exceed the dynamic range of seis mometers. Discarding these clipped waveforms impedes high-resolution studies of Earth’s structure and ground motion analysis. In this ... -
Medication adherence and target Achievement post-myocardial infarction
(2025)Background: Medication adherence and secondary prevention target attainment, such as LDL-C and blood pressure control, are critical in reducing recurrent cardiovascular events post-myocardial infarction. How- ever, adherence ... -
Self-organizing Institutions for Mobile Common-Pool Resource Units: An Agent-Based Model
(2025)Irrigation systems are the life line of many agricultural communities and farmers, and may be common pool resources (CPRs). CPRs are characterised by non-excludability and subtractability. However, irrigation systems are ... -
Distinction between drug-drug interactions mediated by CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 during pharmacokinetic assessment in drug registration procedures by the EMA: An in-depth analysis
(2025)The cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) subfamily members CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 play an important role in the metabolism of more than 50% of all marketed drugs, often leading to drug-drug interactions (DDIs). The European Medicines ... -
Exploring Frontal Alpha Asymmetry as a Neural Indicator of Consumer Preferences: The Impact of Evaluative Conditioning with Climate-Change Related Stimuli
(2025)Introduction: Many social problems, including climate change, are partially driven by the behavior of individuals. One area where individual choice-behavior impacts the climate is in the context of supermarket purchases. ... -
The introduction of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) into a bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gel as an electrical conductor for various applications.
(2025)The International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that energy produced by solar power has greatly increased and that the need for grid energy storage with batteries also has greatly increased. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) ... -
Transparency, Ethical Considerations and AI-system Use in Dutch Municipalities, Noah van Berkel, 6903053
(2025)In this thesis, I focus on the Dutch governmental context of AI-system applications, specifically on transparency about AI-system use in municipalities. I answer the research question: Should municipalities be transparent ... -
“AI of vertaler?”: Kunnen lezers vertaalmachines herkennen?
(2025)In dit onderzoek is gekeken naar of lezers vertaalmachines kunnen herkennen. Hiervoor wordt dan ook de onderzoeksvraag gesteld: kunnen lezers vertaalmachines herkennen en zo ja, waaraan? Om deze vraag te beantwoorden wordt ... -
Automatisch bemind of onbewust verworpen? Een corpus- en surveyonderzoek naar de framing van machinevertaling in Nederlandse nieuwsartikelen
(2025)Met de komst van ChatGPT is er een hoop teweeggebracht in het vertaalwetenschappelijke landschap. Eerder onderzoek in Engelstalige nieuwsartikelen laat zien dat er een overwegend positief frame is van machinevertaling, ... -
Trapped Within an Abstract: How Hozier navigates (pandemic) trauma in Unreal Unearth (2023)
(2025)This thesis examines how Hozier’s Unreal Unearth (2023) translates the trauma stemming from the COVID-19 Pandemic into a thematic concept album structured around Dante’s Inferno. Music’s effect on trauma has been widely ... -
Regulating Artificial Intelligence while respecting the environment: An evaluation of the AI Act with recommendations for sustainable solutions
(2025)This thesis explores the alignment of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) with the EU's environmental protection objectives, examining potential conflicts and proposing solutions for harmonization. ... -
From Image Captioning to Visual Storytelling
(2025)This thesis explores the intersection of two key tasks in Vision & Language: Image Captioning and Visual Storytelling. While traditionally treated as separate problems, we investigate whether these two tasks can be combined ... -
Language and the resilience of knowledge
(2025)Hundreds of languages worldwide are endangered, and the common notion is that such language loss results in knowledge loss. In this thesis, I investigate the idea that different knowledge might have a different resilience ...